The John B showing is located 24 kilometres north of Johanson Lake.

The area is underlain by argillite, chloritic schist, quartz carbonate, schist, phyllite and dolomite, of the Pennsylvanian to Permian Lay Range assemblage. The Swannell thrust fault occurs just to the east.

Mineralization occurs in a 30-metre wide by 170-metre-long shear zone in greenish-grey argillite. A north-northwest trending fault occurs just west of the plotted location of the John B occurrence. Lay Range sedimentary and meta-sedimentary rocks occur east of the fault and Lower Jurassic monzodioritic to gabbroic intrusive rocks occur to the west of the fault. This mapped fault may be the shear in question with the MINFILE occurrence plot being mislocated a few hundred metres to the east. Gold, copper, lead and zinc occur in thin quartz veins and gold occurs in quartz-carbonate rock. Pyrite is the only sulphide identified.

A sample taken from Trench #2 assayed 19.52 grams per tonne gold which was the highest assay from all the samples (Assessment Report 21314).

Work History

This John B property was a gold discovery made in 1988 by John Brien Reierson and Darlene M. Reierson while prospecting in the Wrede Range. Trenching was done on the John B. claim during 1991. Approximately 35 cubic metres of rock was moved. Three trenches were drilled, blasted arid hand shoveled. Twenty-three chip samples and 6 quartz vein samples were taken and assayed for gold.

In 2021, Wedgemount Resources Corp. completed a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and spectral analysis on the area as the regionally extensive Cookie property.